My Sin: the domino effect

Here is what happened at work. First, you need to know a little bit about how hospital nursing works. On our floor we have an Accudose machine out of which we can retrieve certain medications, among these are controlled substances. When a retrieved controlled substance is partially used or returned to the Accudose machine it [...]

A person’s a person no matter how small

I have not given much thought to whether Dr. Seuss was a Believer or not, but I have questions regarding our current Christian society and whether or not the American Church, at least the segment with which I am familiar, believes this Seussism.
My experience has been that we believe that some of the less fortunates [...]

Nursing 101: Life is fragile

Just like any other day, I walked into the hospital, punched the time clock, and chatted with my elevator neighbor on my way up to my unit. Then unlike any other day I saw a seasoned nurse run out of the room. The only intelligible word I heard was “CODE.” I ran. Entering the room [...]

Random Thoughts, venting

It’s spring. There’s frost. I’m tired of cold mornings. Cool is OK. Not cold. Winter is done.
I’m at Panera drinking coffee, wishing you were here, whoever you are. It is bizarre that so many are here with our laptops carrying on digital conversations with IM, Email, blogs. It is exciting. It is sad. I was [...]

Nursing 101: I Can Kill

When someone makes the decision that they are ready to die, it is a sobering matter. This decision I greatly respect. Many people feel as if they have lived their lives, that the quality of life they would have with a disease and medical treatment is not worth the added quantity of days they [...]

Nursing 101: The Uniform

  I presented this headband to my manager as a possible new edition to our uniforms. She laughed me out of the office. What gives?

Nursing 101: The Strange

As a health care professional, you have access to the strange habits that people can have. A nurse told me she walked into a patients room when the patient was licking his dentures, savoring the remaining morsels from his meal. So much for Efferdent.